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# Staff Data Platform Engineer at shieldai

Department: Hivemind Enterprise Division

Compensation

$150,000 – $230,000/yr

**Setup**
: On-site

**Location**
: San Diego, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Aug 26, 2026

## Description

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Data Platform Engineer to define and build the data foundation for its AI Factory. The role leads the architecture and implementation of a knowledge-graph-centered API layer, data operations infrastructure, schema and lineage patterns, agent data access, integrations, developer tools, and technical standards. It requires hands-on technical leadership across distributed data systems, storage and compute technologies, Go and Python production systems, Kubernetes, cloud or customer-managed environments, and collaboration with autonomy, ML, test, infrastructure, product, and customer-facing teams.

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